research-article | 15-April-2019
Turfgrass (Cynodon spp.) is an important horticultural crop in the Southeastern United States. Golf courses, athletic fields, and lawns utilize turfgrass as a playing surface and as ground cover. Turfgrass cultivation, sales, and maintenance is a billion-dollar industry in Florida (Haydu et al., 2006). Plant-parasitic nematodes are an important pathogen of turfgrass. Nematode feeding can lead to stunted roots and even death of the plant (Crow, 2008). As an aesthetic crop, turfgrass managers
Benjamin D. Waldo,
Zane J. Grabau,
Tesfamariam M. Mengistu,
William T. Crow
Journal of Nematology, Volume 51 , 1–12
research-article | 30-March-2020
In 2016, “Tifdwarf” hybrid bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon (L) Pers. × C. transvaalensis Burtt-Davy) grown on a golf green built to the United States Golf Association recommendations in Barbados started to show irregular significant chlorotic patches followed by gradual thinning and decline of turfgrass. Additionally, turfgrass roots sampled from the symptomatic patches appeared to be abbreviated compared to non-symptomatic areas of the greens. A survey was conducted in May 2016 to determine the
P. Mc Groary,
W. Ye,
E. Nangle
Journal of Nematology, Volume 52 , 1–2
research-article | 06-November-2020
The grass root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne graminis and the Maryland root-knot nematode (M. marylandi), have long been recognized as pathogens on turfgrasses (Sledge and Golden, 1964; Grisham et al., 1974; Jepson and Golden, 1987). Recently, these nematodes have increased in importance as pathogens on ultradwarf bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon × C. transvaalensis) used on golf greens (Crow, 2018). Non-systematic surveying of root-knot nematodes on turf and forage bermudagrass in Florida (W. T
William T. Crow,
Alemayehu Habteweld,
Thomas Bean
Journal of Nematology, Volume 52 , 1–12